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Jan Pfister

Jan Pfister has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on Language models & pretraining; often with Andreas Hotho, Julia Wunderle, Fotis Jannidis.

2 papers in our library · 2025–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 5 · 17 works · 150 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 22 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8944

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 Affiliations

🎓University of WürzburgWürzburg · Germany2020–2026 · 25 papersEmployment · CAIDAScurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20251 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. LLäMmlein: Transparent, Compact and Competitive German-Only Language Models from Scratch (2025 · 15 citations)
    German has few large language models that are built only on German data and documented openly. Most German-capable systems are multilingual or adapted from English, and they say little about their training corpora. The authors close this gap with LLäMmlein, a family of German-only decoder models with 120M and 1B…
  2. New Encoders for German Trained from Scratch: Comparing ModernGBERT with Converted LLM2Vec Models (2026 · 7 citations)
    German NLP still relies heavily on encoder models for classification, tagging and embedding tasks, yet few modern, transparent German encoders exist, and none of them support long inputs.

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 7 citing papers with a page here →.

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